Message 377

Yesterday I read about half of The Economist. In the evening I watched a DVD of the movie The Limey. I give it three stars. It had a lot of style and was an experiment in non-linear storytelling with lots of flashbacks and flashforwards, so it is sometimes hard to figure out who and where and when and why your are watching. It is basically a gangster revenge movie, but the story is revealed slowly as different layers are revealed. If you are cleaver enough by the end you understand what it is trying to say. The special features are plentiful and useful in understanding it. Commentaries by the writer, director, and actors are all interesting, but it requires a lot of watching to go through it all, and at the end you have to wonder if it was worth it. I say just barely, maybe.